like the autothrottles. >> reporter: but there is a speed indicator in the plane. and they would also have seen bright red and white lights like these on the simulation flight they're calls precision path indicators or poppy lights. if i see all red, it means i'm too low. if i see all white, it means i'm too high. >> at 200 feet, he noticed the four poppies were red. >> reporter: the impact so violent ntsb investigators say two flight attendants were ejected from the plane after the tail section broke off. >> i believe we ended up finding what we believe were four people in the back in the rubble. >> reporter: today for passengers arriving in san francisco, an eerie sight, that burned out wreckage of flight 214, a sobering reminder of how close so many came to death. and we now know that no blood was taken from the pilots in the hours after this crash. u.s. investigators saying that they have no jurisdiction over foreign crews.